AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +1160%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Sea Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

512

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GA100

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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